For example, the text 'Text in small caps' appears as Text in small caps in small caps. Small caps are used in running text as a form of emphasis that is less dominant than all uppercase text, and as a method of emphasis or distinctiveness for text alongside or instead of italics, or when boldface is inappropriate. This is technically not a case-transformation, but a substitution of glyphs, although the effect is often simulated by case-transformation and scaling. In typography, small caps (short for ' small capitals') are lowercase characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters (capitals) but reduced in height and weight, close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by Writer
